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Closing the Loop on Savings

October 2, 2019 | WSI, Las Vegas, NV

Deb Lane – Water Resources Analyst, City of Santa RosaRenaud des Rosiers – Sustainability Manager, Amy’s Kitchen

Overview• Public Private Partnership Success

• Right Tools for the Job• Cooperation to Identify Opportunities• Expertise• Sustained Reduction Rebate Program

• Case Study: Amy’s Kitchen Closed Loop Cooling

City of Santa Rosa• Population = 169,000• Provide service to 52,000 Water

Customers• Deliver approx 20,000 acre-feet of water

per year• Treat approx 7 billion gal/year

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A Continuing Evolution

Category Brand Rank

Frozen Entrée #1

Frozen Convenience #1

Frozen Pizza #1

RTE Can Soup #1

Shelf Stable Chili #1

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Working to Heal the Earth

• STRATEGY ALIGNED & deliberative• Start with MATERIALITY• Leverage PARTNERSHIPS

Amy’s Recipe forSustainability

From Challenge to Opportunity

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• From bad press to creative solutions

• Cooking up savings for Amy’s Kitchen

• Complex water balance• Water-use efficiency assessment

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1 Point of Connection

14 Sub Meters

1 Effluent Meter

• Clarifies water use distribution within a facility

• Indicates effective water use efficiency opportunities

Key Enabler - Sustained Reduction Rebate

• Hardware or process changes that result in sustained savings

• $200 per 1,000 gallons avg monthly reduction in demand

• Cost effective program• $362 per AF for rebate• $918 per AF wholesale

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Maximizing Impact

SIGNIFICANTLY Reduce Water Usage in Product Cooling

Remove all (12) Kettles from the current once thru domestic water cooling system.

Replace with a closed circuit evaporative fluid cooler with plate and frame glycol heat exchanger.

BENEFITS• Save ~12M gallons of potable water

per year• Increase rate of production

capability

From this…

…To this

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Measurable Savings

∆~1,000,000 gal/month

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1.5x /month

Sustained Reduction Rebate

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$200,000 incentive to support project implementation

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Tangible Business Impact

Takeaways• Communication• Collaboration• Tenacity• Sustained Reduction Rebate

• Flexible/adaptive• Drives innovation• Brings out the best in government

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Questions?

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